Institute Materials

To access any materials for today, please visit hartfordgoingblended.blogspot.com and click “PD Resources”

EdTech Tools that Work for You

Hartford

Going

Blended

Agenda

Objectives/Defining Common Terms (5 mins)

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Reflecting on current practices (15 mins)

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Checkthis creation (30 mins)

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Exploration of new tools and update Checkthis (40 mins)

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Objectives

• Define common terms important to our work.
• Reflect on current use of EdTech in the classroom.
• Explore other edTech tools and identify how they might be used in our classrooms.

Common Terms

• Center of Innovation- A Center of Innovation will be one of six high schools throughout Hartford that will provide a programmatic component designed to cultivate innovation and collaboration around student centered learning while informing the systems level work. Bulkeley High School and Journalism & Media Academy Magnet School will serve as high schools that pursue the anywhere, anytime approach to student centered learning.

Common Terms

2. Anytime, Anywhere- Learning takes place beyond the traditional school day, even the school year. The school’s walls are permeable-- learning is not restricted to the classroom.

3. Blended Learning- an instructional approach in which a student learns in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.

Common Terms

4. Nellie Mae Education Foundation- The Nellie Mae Education Foundation is the largest philanthropic organization in New England that focuses exclusively on education. The Foundation supports the promotion and integration of student-centered approaches to learning where learning is: personalized; competency-based; takes place anytime, anywhere; and, students exert ownership over their own learning.

Where are you?

Examples from the Classroom

Click the icons to see examples of how each edTech resource might be used in a classroom.

Examples from Your Classrooms

Reflecting Using Checkthis

• Go to checkthis.com
• Click “Connect” in the upper left hand corner and log in with Google. When prompted by Google, click “Accept.”
• Click “New Post” in the upper right hand corner.
• Click “Create a post online.”

Reflecting Using Checkthis

• What technology, web-based or other, do you currently use in your work? Provide links or pictures where appropriate.
• How effective is this technology for you? How effective is this technology for your students?
• Complete for 2 pieces of tech.

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When finished, click “Publish” and write down your url!

Time to Explore

Go to Edsurge Edtech Index or Classroom in a Blender to read brief reviews of edTech tools that work. Can you find two to use next year?

Predicting Using Checkthis

Add the following content to your Checkthis page:

• What 2 EdTech tools do you see having promise in the next school year?
• What effect do you predict these tools having on you and your students?

Email me a link to your Checkthis

grisp001@hartfordschools.org

Blending Lessons

Putting the Tools to Work

An Approach

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Unit Plan - U.S. History

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Learn

Practice

Discuss

Apply

Assess

Essential Questions

Enduring Understandings

Strengths

• Backwards Planning
• Student Choice
• Scaffolding/Increasing Rigor
• Accommodations/ Differentiation

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Challenges

• Planning
• Modeling
• Time Management

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Collaboration

• Work with your table to take a non-blended lesson and blend it!
• Think about how this lesson might fall into a larger blended unit

Hartford Going Blended

Blogging

• Log in to Google.
• In the top right corner select this icon and then click “More.”
• Choose the Blogger app.
• You will see the Hartford Going Blended blog.

Homework

• Complete Exit Slip for today’s Institute.
• Schedule an appointment with Paul to complete an implementation plan (available dates and times will be emailed).
• Read the Introduction, chapter 1, and your assigned chapter in Blended.
• Blog about your research and planning, once in July and once in August.